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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071025
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071026
SUMMARY:Enterprise Information Architecture
LOCATION:Seattle\, Washington\, USA
DESCRIPTION:Benefits
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\nThis advanced information architecture seminar co
 mbines lecture\, demonstration and exercises\, discussion\, and handouts to
  address a topic that bewilders every large organization: designing unified
  information architectures for large enterprises. You'll learn to:
\n* Deve
 lop main pages and other upper-level "portal" components that convey a sing
 le cohesive organization\, not a collection of warring business units.
\n* 
 Use metadata and contextual navigation to help users move from one content-
 rich page to another\, regardless of which business unit manages that conte
 nt.
\n* Design search interfaces for improved access to content stored in o
 rganizational "silos".
\n* Better implement an enterprise-wide information 
 architecture through appropriate research and design methods and improved g
 overnance.
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\nSeminar Schedule and Outline
\n
\nRegistration and continen
 tal breakfast begin at 8am. The seminar starts at 9am and finishes at 5pm\,
  followed by an extremely happy hour. During the day\, we'll cover these to
 pics:
\n* Overview of enterprise information architecture (EIA)
\n* EIA fro
 m the top-down: taxonomies\, guides\, and other techniques for unifying dep
 artmental content
\n* EIA from the bottom-up: content models and metadata t
 o enable contextual navigation from page to page
\n* EIA and search: indexi
 ng cross-departmental content\, presenting results consistently
\n* EIA and
  the organization: models for rolling out an enterprise information archite
 cture\, staffing it\, and paying for and managing it in a distributed corpo
 rate environment
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\nWhat's Included
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\n* Handouts including presentatio
 n slides and references to related readings\, software products\, and other
  useful resources.
\n* A variety of opportunities to network with attendees
 \, including a post-seminar happy hour with Lou Rosenfeld\, Steve Krug\, an
 d other members of the local information architecture and usability communi
 ties. In these new fields\, knowing your peers is invaluable.
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